Historic Old Town building becomes home base for Lansing makers club

A new congregation recently started gathering inside the former Temple Club in Lansing’s Old Town district. Itīs open to the public and meets regularly, where conversations often revolve around creation and makers. But it’s not what you think.

Lansing hot tub vendor adds eclectic art angle to business

Art integrates itself in many places around town, from Martin Eichinger’s “Windlord” at Adado Riverfront Park to the poetry benches lining Grand River Avenue and Turner Street in Old Town. In Lansing, art isn’t confined to local galleries and museums — almost every line of sight ends in it. Pablo Picasso said, “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” So maybe we should consider ourselves lucky for each unexpected splash of art we come across in a day.

Missy Lilje couldn't have planned it better if she had tried. She was recently named executive director for Happendance, the area's only self-sustained professional dance company, mere weeks before fulfilling a lifelong dream — setting choreography to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."